The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.